Questions tagged [squarespace]

Squarespace is a creative platform for building websites. It's an all-in-one hosting, software and support package featuring an easy-to-use development platform giving you full front end control over your project.

Squarespace is a web publishing platform with a focus on design and user experience. Their two primary products are Domains and Websites, but it's worth noting that their Website product has multiple pricing tiers to serve various needs.

Features:

  • Professionally designed mobile-responsive templates
  • A drag-and-drop user interface for content management.
  • A collection" engine that supports all of the basics you would expect: blogging, galleries, events, albums, products, etc.
  • Built-in supports for many popular integrations and social media accounts.
  • Built-in eCommerce platform with seamless integration to Stripe.

Each and every Squarespace website has a toggle switch to turn on access to the underlying platform. This allows you to build any design you want using their creative platform.

Features:

  • Full front end code control.
  • JSON-T templating syntax.
  • Built-in support for LESS CSS and JavaScript minification, although you don't have to use them.
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Squarespace templates and Less CSS

I’ve been looking into some of the Squarespace template design resources to better understand an existing template.. This got me looking at Less, and I’m not sure I’m seeing where it fits in. The documentation mentions Node.js and compiling Less, it…
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Checking whether user is logged in through memberful when clicking button

I have a button on my website that should be sensitive to whether a user is logged in or not through memberful using the memberful api through oauth. I am not sure how to detect whether the user is logged in when clicking on the button. Any help…
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Invert text color based on root background image or color

some parts of this question have already been covered here. I am trying to create a navigation bar that goes on top of all elements like this:

Hello

And then…
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Squarespace Developer Mode Irrecoverably Breaks Site After Git Push

Squarespace does not offer any documentation or support for their developer mode, so I am hoping that someone has run into this catastrophic error and figured out a workaround. The normal edit => commit => push pattern results in Squarespace…
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Trigger Animation on Scroll

Basically i'd like to trigger this box animation after the user scrolls down by adding a class. Can't seem to make this work for me, I'm probably doing something fundamentally wrong. Below is my current code, can anyone give me pointers as to what…
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javascript scratchblocks squarespace

I would like to use Scratchblocks (a tool for rendering visual Scratch code blocks from a text listing, on GitHub) on my Squarespace website. The problem I am getting is that the scratchblocks are never rendered on the first load - but only after a…
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Can you deep link to an app from a Squarespace hosted website?

I want to implement deep linking in my app. I've read that to implement deep linking you need to put a json file in the root of your website which will then redirect users to the app if they are on a mobile device and the app is installed. I have a…
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Squarespace - can I pass data from a Form into a Python script, and return an automated message?

I'm a mathematician (not a developer) trying to make a website using Squarespace. The only coding language I know is Python. One desired feature of the website is a kind of "personality quiz". The idea is that the user fills in a form - then their…
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Squarespace transfer one page to another website

I need to transfer a single page over to another Squarespace website. My client wanted a whole website done but due to budget issues is now only getting a single page for the time being. If it matters, I was building the page on my own account, with…
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Has anyone created a method for cloning a squarespace site to create a new squarespace site?

As I understand it, Squarespace provides no method to clone a site. Clone means to create a new squarespace site (not re-create ex-squarespace). My latest project includes creating a 'base site' and then cloning it for different customers (and each…
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Using Squarespace to edit html/css

I am trying to create a website on Squarespace and am having trouble selecting elements on my HTML page to use in the custom css. When I use the inspect element on my browser, the ID's for some elements change while others are constant. I am…
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Node.js can't request a squarespace site?

I'm trying to request this website but I keep getting a 400 Bad Request error. This code works for just about any other site I've tried that isn't built with squarespace so I'm guessing that's where the problem is. var request =…
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Using German characters (e.g. Umlaut) in HTML

I am trying to encode German characters in html. I just want to use the special character codes. For the Umlaut, I've tried using both Ü and Ü and neither renders properly. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. This is for a Squarespace site,…
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Custom 'Show More/Show Less' script not loading images in most,but not all, of Squarespace's Gallery & Summary design formats. What am I missing?

Looking to Fix a 'Show More / Show Less' feature to my Squarespace site. I have a pretty good solution, however there seems to be some limitations to the code and or Squarespace, or am I completely missing something in the code in respect to…
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How to add thumbnails for embed video in website(Squarespace)

I have embed some video to my website using following code.
When entering into my site the video taking few seconds…
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